Call me crazy but this isn’t the way to make friends and influence people. Another scapegoat. The Air Force. Gee, that’s nice. Hey Bobby…. if you’re not happy with the leaders, can’t you change them???? Isn’t that your job? And if they are dragging their feet, maybe there’s a reason. Maybe it’s time to GET OUT!!!! Talk about a dumb thing to say.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the Air Force is not doing enough to help in the Iraq and Afghanistan war effort, complaining that some military leaders are “stuck in old ways of doing business.”

Gates said in a speech at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., that getting the Air Force to send more surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Iraq and Afghanistan has been “like pulling teeth.”

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